Title:Background and Technical Studies for GENIUS as a Dark Matter Experiment

Abstract: The GENIUS project is a proposal for a new dark matter detector, with an
increased sensitivity of three orders of magnitude relative to existing direct
dark matter detection experiments. We performed a technical study and
calculated the main background sources for the relevant energy region in a
detailed detector geometry. The achieved overall background level and detector
performance confirm the outstanding potential of GENIUS as a powerful tool for
the direct search of WIMPs in our Galaxy.